Where is the city from? Part 1

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Now the younger generation reads much less, give them films and programs. Write a maximum of sms, read at least the same sms, and as a maximum a magazine. So far, my students have only had enough for pictures, the essence for them is shaky and vague, and what difference does it make what was there, it is important what is and what will be. But my life experience tells me: without looking back, you will never know where to go, because you never know where you came from.

The older generation firmly believes in what they were told, in what they were forced to learn from memory, socialism, communism, atheism. And that those who lead know exactly which path, course, direction to choose. Although many are already looking at them in confusion, not realizing that the course is not straight, but curved, and their life has passed like a non-stop running in a circle.

My history teacher recently told me:

- Do not take away those crumbs that are left to us, faith in what we were taught. I'm tired of believing in the party, Lenin and Stalin, but you swung at Peter I himself, at the splendor of Russian history. Don't trample my last tale, or people like me will trample you.

It's hard for them to understand me, I'm just trying to figure out:

What for?

For what?

Who benefits from?

And now I sit and look at the old map of St. Petersburg, and I am amazed …

Plan of St. Petersburg I. Homann. Etching, cutter, watercolor on paper. 50.5х59.5 cm.1720th (before 1725)

And history says that St. Petersburg was founded on May 16, 1703 (the Tsar laid the first stone for the construction on May 16, 1703, on the day of the Holy Trinity. Here is the legend about the founding of the city), and that, this is all in 10-15 years, during winters - 35-40, midges, dampness, lack of roads and factories, I'm not talking about construction equipment. It is enough to glance at Vasilievsky Island, there is nothing yet, but there is a markup and layout, but what about the scale? No one in Europe has ever thought of such a layout, but here?

Summer Garden in 1716, by Alexey Zubov. In the speed of construction, "not like the current tribe", or there is a catch somewhere, maybe historians are lying? Some of the buildings depicted in this engraving, according to the official history, should appear much later, after the death of the author, but A. Zubov knows exactly what and where to draw.

Spiers can be seen in the distance to the left and to the right, the Mikhailovsky Castle on the left, the Savior on Spilled Blood on the right, and so: on April 17, 1819, the foundation of the Mikhailovsky Palace was laid. This day became the day of the founding of one of the largest museums in the world - the State Russian Museum. The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood was erected in 1883-1907, on the site where the Tsar-Liberator Alexander II was mortally wounded on March 1, 1881. But more on that below. Punctures of Zubov Montferan, Falcone, Schubert, Karamzin and the artistic gift of the well-known A. S. We will consider Pushkin in detail below.

Link, just click:

A few words about "ancient geodesy"

It is hard to believe that the planning, breakdown and referencing of the buildings of St. Or maybe the city stood long before the current historical version of its appearance?

1753 g.

19th century.

Another observation is very interesting in this regard, When all of Europe lived in cities where sewage systems hardly appeared under the streets, the width of which barely allowed the carts to part, and the buildings expanded from the center (map of Paris, late 17th century, at that time the only standard for building cities)

The same Amsterdam that taught Peter everything:

(London (below), the year is indicated on the map …. The capital, as the capital, not a single straight line)

Moscow could not get rid of the chaotic development in any way.

And here is a map of Kiev - the mother of Russian cities:

Map of 1717, and this is only a project for the development of St. Petersburg, ordered but not launched

And here is the map 1720, as they say "in fact"

Here are some more drawings, all genuine and kept in the museum. Just click on the link.

So to break Vasilievsky Island without surveyors … well, no way, so who to believe?

But the city in 1716, even before the general project, is this data from an engraving, or are they lying again?

This link is an awesome selection of city maps. Draw your own conclusions, and from me personally HUGE gratitude to the author for his work:

Notes of a Boring Man - Plans for the capital cities of Europe and some notable cities in Asia, Africa and America. 1771

Here are two more very interesting maps, already dated 1703, I give links

They are more like not building projects, but reconstruction projects.

It should be noted that the preserved historical information about the founding of St. Petersburg is not unconditionally reliable. The Preobrazhensky marching journal says that on May 11, Peter went by dry road to Shlisselburg, on May 14 he was at the Syassk estuary, on May 16 he drove even further, and on May 17 he arrived at Lodeynaya pier. Thus, according to this diary, on May 16, Peter was not in St. Petersburg. Therefore, many take June 29, 1703 as the foundation day of the new capital, when the foundation stone of the church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul was completed. It is also noteworthy that in any modern documents the name of St. Petersburg is not mentioned either in May or in June of that year; this area retained the name of Schlotburg. But on the maps of the early 18th century, the Peter and Paul Fortress is already standing, not an island, but a fortress, with clearly outlined borders. This is how it is today, just removed from Googlemaps, the same six rays, and how much was it built according to history? And more … IE Kleinenberg discovered the news of Vasilievsky Island, lying at the mouth of the Neva, in a Livonian document of 1426, strange, isn't it?

It is written that the construction was completed in 1780, and in 1785 part of the walls were faced with granite, but on the maps of 1720 all the walls are there.

Plan of the Peter and Paul Fortress

It clearly repeats all the other fortresses, as if they were executed according to the same scenario. An Italian Renaissance fortress in the shape of a star from the 1500s was taken as a model for a walled city.

Separate link to

Nyenskans

Nyenskans - Russified from Nyenskans (Swedish Nyenskans, Finn. Nevanlinna, Russian Kantsy) - a Swedish fortress, which was the main fortification of the city of Nyen (Swedish Nyen) on Cape Okhtinsky on the banks of the Neva, at the mouth of the Okhta River on its left bank, next to modern Krasnogvardeyskaya square in St. Petersburg. The fortress was founded in 1611 on the lands seized from Russia, on the site of the Russian trading settlement Nevsky Gorodok (Nevskoe Ustye) to control the Izhora land, called the Swedes Ingermanlandia, and control the waterway up the Neva. Literally translated as Nevsky (Nyen) trench (skans).

Here is a detailed map of the location of the star-shaped forts scattered throughout Europe.

All these fortresses are the remains of former forts and fortifications rebuilt according to the same type of plan, and in time immemorial.